SPRING ARBOR — Evolutionists teach that over millions of years, lower life forms gradually changed into higher forms, acquiring more and more information in the DNA until the final result is modern humans. But can genetic mutations, which are copying mistakes, achieve this?
For mutations to form new species, this upward changing would have to occur in a precise and orderly manner, not just randomly. But what is observed about present-day mutations? Information is lost, rearranged, or sometimes added. The result can be destructive (e.g. Down syndrome) or benign.
Mutations, to be beneficial, must cause a gain in function. The second law of thermodynamics tells us that everything, if left to itself, tends to move downward from organization to disorganization. Observable mutation adheres to this law; evolution violates it.
Another problem with mutation-driven evolution is the gaps in the fossil record. There should be millions of intermediate fossils between the various kinds of animals and between apes and man. These have never been found. The missing links are just that — missing — except for a few fakes such as Piltdown man.
To get past this quandary, Jay Gould and Niles Eldridge, in the 1970s proposed what they called “punctuated equilibrium.” This theory says that species stayed the same for an extended time, then suddenly jumped to new species. But that’s not evolution, is it?
We have to remember that evolution is only a theory based on assumptions, even some try to present it as fact. None of us were around to witness either evolution or creation, nor can either be duplicated experimentally.
Attempts in the 1950s to create the simplest of life in the test tube failed. Only a few simple amino acids resulted; no protein no DNA, no cellular structure, no life.
— Walter Pettifor